Against Pointillisme about mechanics

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-753

  Butterfield, Jeremy ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845391546     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axl026     Document Type: Article

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16. Butterfield, J. [2006b]: The Rotating discs Argument Defeated', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57, pp. 1-45.
17. Butterfield, J. [unpublished(a)]: 'On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter', available at: 〈arxiv.org/physics/0406021〉: and at 〈philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002381/〉
18. Butterfield, J. [unpublished(b)]: 'Against Pointillisme: A Call to Arms', in preparation.
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39. Lewis, D. [1999b]: Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Lewis, D. [2001]: 'Redefining "Intrinsic"', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63, pp. 381-98.
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50. Smith, S. [2003b]: 'Author's Response', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34B, p. 283.
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53. Tooley, M. [1997]: Time, Tense and Causation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
54. Vallentyne, P. [1997]: 'Intrinsic Properties Defined', Philosophical Studies, 88, pp. 209-19.
55. Weatherson, B. [2002]: 'Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 〈plato.stanford.edu/intrinsic-extrinsic〉.
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57. Wilson, M. [2004]: 'Theory Facades', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 78, pp. 271-86.
58. Zimmerman, D. [1998]: 'Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76, pp. 265-88.
59. Zimmerman, D. [1999]: 'One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77, pp. 213-5.
60. Arntzenius, F. [2003]: 'An Arbitrarily Short Reply to Sheldon Smith on Instantaneous Velocities', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34B, pp. 281-2.
61. Arntzenius, F. [2004]: Time Reversal Operations, Representations of the Lorentz Group, and the Direction of Time', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 35B, pp. 31-44.
62. Arthur, R. [forthcoming]: 'Leibniz's Syncategorematic Infinitesimals, Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis and Newton's Proposition 6', forthcoming in W. Harper and W. Myrvold (eds), Infinitesimals, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2007.
63. Batterman, R. [2003]: 'Falling Cats, Parallel Parking and Polarized Light', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34B, pp. 527-58.
64. Bell, J. [1998]: A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. Belot, G. [1998]: 'Understanding Electromagnetism', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 49, pp. 531-55.
66. Bigelow, J., Ellis, B., and Pargetter, R. [1988]: 'Forces', Philosophy of Science, 55, pp. 614-30.
67. Bigelow, J. and Pargetter, R. [1989]: 'Vectors and Change', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 40, pp. 289-306.
68. Bigelow, J. and Pargetter, R. [1990]: Science and Necessity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
69. Bricker, P. [1993]: The Fabric of Space: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Distance Relations', in P. French, T. Uehling and H. Wettstein (eds), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 18, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 271-94.
70. Butterfield, J. [2005]: 'On the Persistence of Particles', Foundations of Physics, 35, pp. 233-69.
71. Butterfield, J. [2006a]: 'Against Pointillisme about Geometry', in F. Stadler, M. Stoeltzner (eds), Time and History; Proceedings of 28th International Wittgenstein Conference, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, pp. 181-222.
72. Butterfield, J. [2006b]: The Rotating discs Argument Defeated', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57, pp. 1-45.
73. Butterfield, J. [unpublished(a)]: 'On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter', available at: 〈arxiv.org/physics/0406021〉: and at 〈philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002381/〉
74. Butterfield, J. [unpublished(b)]: 'Against Pointillisme: A Call to Arms', in preparation.
75. Carroll, J. [2002]: 'Instantaneous Motion', Philosophical Studies, 110, pp. 49-67.
76. Colyvan, M. and Ginzburg, L. [2003]: The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology', Biology and Philosophy, 18, pp. 401-14.
77. Dainton, B. [2001]: Time and Space, Basingstoke: Acumen Publishing.
78. Earman, J. [1987]: 'Locality, Nonlocality and Action at a Distance: A Skeptical Review of Some Philosophical Dogmas', in R. Kargon and P. Achinstein, (eds), Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
79. Earman, J. [1989]: World Enough and Spacetime, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
80. Barman, J. [2002]: 'What Time Reversal Is and Why it Matters', International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 16, pp. 245-64.
81. Hawthorne, J. [2006]: 'Quantity in Lewisian Metaphysics', in his Metaphysical Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 229-38.
82. Hoefer, C. [2000]: 'Energy Conservation in GTR', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 31B, pp. 187-200.
83. Lange, M. [2005]: 'How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill Its Causal Role?', Philosophical Review, 114, pp. 433-68.
84. Langton, R. and Lewis, D. [1998]: 'Defining "Intrinsic"', Philosophy and Phenomena-logical Research, 58, pp. 333-45; reprinted in Lewis [1999b], page reference to reprint.
85. Leibniz, G. [2001]: The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem 1672-1686, ed. sci. and transl. R. Arthur, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
86. Leisenring, A. [1969]: Mathematical Logic and Hilbert's s Symbol, London: Macdonald Technical and Scientific.
87. Le Poidevin, R. [unpublished]: 'Motion, Cause and Moment', in preparation.
88. Lewis, D. [1970]: 'How to Define Theoretical Terms', Journal of Philosophy, 67, pp. 427-46.
89. Lewis, D. [1983a]: 'Extrinsic Properties', Philosophical Studies, 44, pp. 197-200; reprinted in Lewis [1999b]; page references to reprint.
90. Lewis, D. [1983b]: 'New Work for a Theory of Universals', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61, pp. 343-77; reprinted in Lewis [1999b].
91. Lewis, D. [1986a]: Philosophical Papers, vol II, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
92. Lewis, D. [1986b]: On the Plurality of Worlds, Oxford: Blackwell.
93. Lewis, D. [1994]: 'Humean Supervenience Debugged', Mind, 103, pp. 473-90; reprinted in Lewis [1999b], pp. 224-47; page reference to reprint.
94. Lewis, D. [1999a]: 'Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77, pp. 209-12.
95. Lewis, D. [1999b]: Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
96. Lewis, D. [2001]: 'Redefining "Intrinsic"', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63, pp. 381-98.
97. Malament, D. [2004]: 'On the Time Reversal Invariance of Classical Electromagnetic Theory', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 35B, pp. 295-315.
98. Mancosu, P. [1996]: Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
99. Meyer, U. [2003]: 'The Metaphysics of Velocity', Philosophical Studies, 112, pp. 93-102.
100. Robinson, A. [1996]: Non-standard Analysis, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
101. Robinson, D. [1989]: 'Matter, Motion and Humean Supervenience', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67, pp. 394-409.
102. Russell, B. [1903]: The Principles of Mathematics, London: Allen and Unwin.
103. Sider, T. [2001]: Four-Dimensionalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
104. Sklar, L. [1974]: Space, Time and Spacetime, San Francisco, CA: University of California Press.
105. Smith, S. [2003a]: 'Are Instantaneous Velocities Real and Really Instantaneous?', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34B, pp. 261-80.
106. Smith, S. [2003b]: 'Author's Response', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34B, p. 283.
107. Tooley, M. [1987]: Causation: A Realist Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
108. Tooley, M. [1988], 'In Defence of the Existence of States of Motion', Philosophical Topics, 16, pp. 225-54.
109. Tooley, M. [1997]: Time, Tense and Causation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
110. Vallentyne, P. [1997]: 'Intrinsic Properties Defined', Philosophical Studies, 88, pp. 209-19.
111. Weatherson, B. [2002]: 'Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 〈plato.stanford.edu/intrinsic-extrinsic〉.
112. Wilson, M [1998]: 'Classical Mechanics', in E. J. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 6, pp. 251-9, London: Routledge.
113. Wilson, M. [2004]: 'Theory Facades', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 78, pp. 271-86.
114. Zimmerman, D. [1998]: 'Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76, pp. 265-88.
115. Zimmerman, D. [1999]: 'One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77, pp. 213-5.